.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 318 234 161
Rank change year-on-year -84 -73 -45
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 327 684 928
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.66% 1.23% 2.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.32% 5.73% 7.81%
Number of salaries quoted 302 490 867
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -2.44%
75th Percentile £81,250 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,625 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,149 11,929 11,885
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 12.49% 21.43% 26.38%
Number of salaries quoted 4,703 7,260 9,869
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £66,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% -1.52% +1.54%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 8 December 2025.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 8 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +22 128 £76,250 +8.93% 71
North of England -44 75 £52,500 -4.55% 115
South East -45 50 £57,500 +9.52% 125
North West +2 43 £55,000 -4.35% 67
Midlands -33 32 £65,000 +30.00% 82
South West +22 25 £52,500 -20.75% 39
Yorkshire -43 23 £40,000 -20.00% 33
East Midlands -11 22 £70,000 +40.00% 39
East of England -20 12 £60,000 +20.00% 62
West Midlands -8 10 £60,000 +20.00% 40
North East -5 9 £50,000 +11.11% 15
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (2.45%) IIS
2 6 (1.83%) CMS
2 6 (1.83%) Confluence
3 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.92%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.31%) Kentico
5 1 (0.31%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (0.92%) S-PLUS
2 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.61%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 219 (66.97%) Azure
2 89 (27.22%) AWS
3 55 (16.82%) Azure DevOps
4 39 (11.93%) Serverless
5 29 (8.87%) GitHub
6 22 (6.73%) Azure Service Bus
7 18 (5.50%) Azure Functions
8 17 (5.20%) Power Platform
9 16 (4.89%) SaaS
10 15 (4.59%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (4.59%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (3.06%) Amazon S3
11 10 (3.06%) Azure AKS
11 10 (3.06%) Azure App Service
11 10 (3.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 10 (3.06%) Power Automate
12 9 (2.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (2.75%) Amazon SQS
12 9 (2.75%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (2.75%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.53%) Internet
2 2 (0.61%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (37.31%) SQL Server
2 51 (15.60%) MongoDB
3 48 (14.68%) Azure SQL Database
4 30 (9.17%) NoSQL
5 21 (6.42%) Elasticsearch
5 21 (6.42%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (4.28%) DynamoDB
6 14 (4.28%) Relational Database
7 11 (3.36%) MySQL
8 9 (2.75%) Power BI
9 7 (2.14%) NonStop SQL
10 6 (1.83%) Redis
10 6 (1.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (1.22%) Data Hub
11 4 (1.22%) SQL CLR
11 4 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.92%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.31%) Amazon Athena
13 1 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.31%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 58 (17.74%) Git
2 14 (4.28%) JIRA
3 11 (3.36%) Visual Studio
4 6 (1.83%) GitLab
4 6 (1.83%) NUnit
5 5 (1.53%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.53%) MSTest
5 5 (1.53%) TeamCity
6 4 (1.22%) Postman
6 4 (1.22%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.22%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.92%) JMeter
7 3 (0.92%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (0.92%) Selenium
7 3 (0.92%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.61%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.31%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.31%) NSubstitute
9 1 (0.31%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.31%) webpack
General
1 47 (14.37%) Finance
2 41 (12.54%) Social Skills
3 16 (4.89%) Law
4 14 (4.28%) Retail
5 11 (3.36%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.06%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.45%) Back Office
8 8 (2.45%) Games
8 8 (2.45%) Legal
9 7 (2.14%) Advertising
10 6 (1.83%) Front Office
11 5 (1.53%) Banking
12 4 (1.22%) Marketing
13 3 (0.92%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.31%) Automotive
15 1 (0.31%) Financial Institution
15 1 (0.31%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 238 (72.78%) Developer
2 133 (40.67%) .NET Developer
3 76 (23.24%) Senior
4 58 (17.74%) C# Developer
5 57 (17.43%) Software Developer
6 52 (15.90%) Senior Developer
7 43 (13.15%) Full-Stack Developer
8 37 (11.31%) Software Engineer
9 29 (8.87%) Lead
10 25 (7.65%) Senior .NET Developer
11 24 (7.34%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 21 (6.42%) Senior C# Developer
13 20 (6.12%) .NET Software Engineer
13 20 (6.12%) C# .NET Developer
14 16 (4.89%) C# Software Developer
14 16 (4.89%) React Developer
15 15 (4.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 15 (4.59%) Lead Developer
16 13 (3.98%) Senior Software Engineer
17 12 (3.67%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 327 (100.00%) .NET
2 126 (38.53%) ASP.NET
3 101 (30.89%) React
4 98 (29.97%) AngularJS
5 91 (27.83%) .NET Framework
6 75 (22.94%) HTML
7 72 (22.02%) RESTful
8 69 (21.10%) Entity Framework
9 64 (19.57%) CSS
10 62 (18.96%) ASP.NET MVC
11 58 (17.74%) ASP.NET Web API
12 46 (14.07%) Blazor
13 41 (12.54%) Vue
14 38 (11.62%) Node.js
15 35 (10.70%) HTML5
16 30 (9.17%) ASP.NET Core
17 23 (7.03%) REST
18 19 (5.81%) CSS3
19 17 (5.20%) LINQ
20 14 (4.28%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 39 (11.93%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.20%) Greenfield Project
3 16 (4.89%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (3.98%) AI Agents
5 8 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.14%) Digital TV
6 7 (2.14%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 6 (1.83%) 3D Graphics
7 6 (1.83%) Algorithms
7 6 (1.83%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.22%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.22%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.22%) Private Cloud
9 3 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (0.92%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.92%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.83%) Windows
2 5 (1.53%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.31%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (46.18%) Agile
2 135 (41.28%) Full-Stack Development
3 117 (35.78%) Microservices
4 113 (34.56%) CI/CD
5 99 (30.28%) DevOps
6 94 (28.75%) Software Engineering
7 81 (24.77%) MVC
8 55 (16.82%) Clean Code
9 50 (15.29%) Containerisation
9 50 (15.29%) Scrum
10 47 (14.37%) Problem-Solving
11 46 (14.07%) TDD
12 44 (13.46%) Continuous Improvement
13 33 (10.09%) Mentoring
13 33 (10.09%) SDLC
14 30 (9.17%) BDD
15 29 (8.87%) Infrastructure as Code
15 29 (8.87%) Kanban
16 26 (7.95%) Unit Testing
17 24 (7.34%) OO
Programming Languages
1 293 (89.60%) C#
2 132 (40.37%) SQL
3 131 (40.06%) JavaScript
4 72 (22.02%) TypeScript
5 29 (8.87%) Python
6 13 (3.98%) Rust
7 9 (2.75%) T-SQL
8 7 (2.14%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.53%) Go
9 5 (1.53%) Java
10 4 (1.22%) VB.NET
11 3 (0.92%) Erlang
12 2 (0.61%) Bash
12 2 (0.61%) Bicep
12 2 (0.61%) XAML
13 1 (0.31%) C++
13 1 (0.31%) PHP
Qualifications
1 38 (11.62%) Degree
2 13 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (2.45%) AWS Certification
3 8 (2.45%) AWS Certified Developer
3 8 (2.45%) Security Cleared
4 7 (2.14%) SC Cleared
5 5 (1.53%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.61%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.50%) QA
2 9 (2.75%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.14%) WCAG
4 1 (0.31%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.31%) GDPR
4 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 70 (21.41%) Docker
2 4 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 37 (11.31%) Kubernetes
2 30 (9.17%) Terraform
3 2 (0.61%) Ansible
4 1 (0.31%) Grafana
Vendors
1 110 (33.64%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.14%) Facebook
2 7 (2.14%) YouTube
3 4 (1.22%) Dynatrace
3 4 (1.22%) VMware
4 3 (0.92%) Databricks
5 2 (0.61%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (0.61%) Google
5 2 (0.61%) ION Trading
5 2 (0.61%) Oracle
6 1 (0.31%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (0.31%) IBM
6 1 (0.31%) IONA
6 1 (0.31%) Okta
6 1 (0.31%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.31%) ServiceNow